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Author Bulmuş, Birsen, author.

Title Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire / Birsen Bulmųs.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 195 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Preliminary remarks -- 2. Conceptualizing plague in Ottoman Islamic thought -- 3. Plague and Ottoman medical thought -- 4. Magic and plague in the Ottoman Empire -- 5. Hamdan Bin El-Merhum Osman and the Ottoman quarantine reform -- 6. Plague and quarantines in the Colonial Era -- 7. Plague, sanitary administration, and the end of Empire -- 8. Towards a new understanding of plague and quarantines in the Ottoman Empire.
Summary "A sweeping examination of Ottoman plague treatise writers from the Black Death until 1923. Were you aware that many of the greatest and most colourful Ottoman statesmen and literary figures from the 15th to the early 20th century considered plague as a grave threat to their empire? Did you know that many Ottomans applauded the establishment of a quarantine against the disease in 1838 as a tool to resist British and French political and commercial penetration? Or that later Ottoman sanitation efforts to prevent urban outbreaks would help engender the Arab revolt against the empire in 1916? This book explores these facts in an engaging study of Ottoman plague treatise writers throughout their almost 600-year struggle with this epidemic disease. And it deals with the political, economic and social consequences of the methods they used to combat it. Key Features: Studies the premodern ways in which plague was viewed by Ottoman Islamic thinkers ; Traces the eventual Ottoman acceptance of quarantines and other modern medical reforms ; Analyses international debates over plagues and quarantines as a struggle about colonialism and national sovereignty"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Plague -- Turkey -- Historiography.
Plague -- Political aspects -- Turkey -- Historiography.
Quarantine -- Turkey -- Historiography.
Quarantine -- Political aspects -- Turkey -- Historiography.
Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 -- Historiography.
MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
Biography and True Stories.
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
Quarantine -- history.
Ottoman Empire.
Turkey.
Plague -- history.
Politics.
Other Form: Print version: Bulmuş, Birsen. Plague, quarantines, and geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2012 9780748646593 (DLC) 2012427098 (OCoLC)775411781
ISBN 9780748646609 (electronic book)
0748646604 (electronic book)
9780748646593 (cloth)
0748646590 (cloth)
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